I ate junk and cooked food most of the week. Disastrous result on my recovery and overall fitness. For instance, I runned over 10 km monday I think, or tuesday, and thighs, but especially my calves, took all week to heal. I have a small cut on my little finger since like 2 weeks and it's not even fully healed yet.

Yesterday I ate about 30 olives. Chocolate. Today some bananas, dates. Tortilla chips with homemade guacamole and salsa. Homemade chocolate cookies...With all this crap I felt I had no strenght while doing push-ups. This last set was so hard to finish! Pathetic... But so far I've done all the reps and sets from the program.

week4 day4 set5 (29,33,29,29,40) with 120 seconds rest between each set

I meant week4 day3, not day4. I see this push-up program as a prep to get back to real training, in a few weeks from now. Back in the gym, and lifting heavy loads, I plan on gaining true mass this time.

It's also cool that I'm running low on junk food right now, so I'll eat all those spinach, roman lettuce, tomatoes, avocados and fruits that I have. No more crap in my diet

It's been a long time since I wrote here, cuz I moved back to Montreal and didn't have Internet. But I will do some updates soon, since I've been training in the gym for about a month now and so far I see good results.

But I'll use this journal to talk about all kinds of stuff too...

So I just saw a tv program, where the write Dany Laferrière talks (always with humour but being serious at the same time) about how there's no present anymore, and that the present is drowned in the past of future. For instance, 15 December to 14 January is like a big hole in the time, or a sort of time warp, because people go see their parents, they go in the past... yeah, lol. But what's more interesting is when he said that there's no present due mostly t medias. All the newspapers, they never tell about the present, they only talk about the day before, and the other night before that (because of course it takes time to write the journal and t publish it, so that understandable)... But, then the newspapers' date should be yesterday, not the date of today... Even worse for magazines, which are written in December and January 2008, but they claim it's the edition of Feburary 2009.What's sad is that the radio tried to sell the idea that they could be live and talk about news that are just happening right now... but all they do is reading the newspapers, so news of yesterday, and they open the rant lines so people call and talk all day about things that happened before. On the tv, we see more often stories that are already past, rather then live stuff. News about the war in Afghanistan, telling names of soldiers who died... but those soldiers already suffered in the present and died before we heard about it, while we wait and hope that it will stop...

So as I said I started to go to the gym again, after one year of absence. (but I was doing some bodyweight training as well as running, cycling in the meantime).

I gained about 7 pounds of muscle in the last month (phase #1). Went from 135 to 142. Since 2 weeks my weight stays at 142 but I feel I keep adding muscles, I think I'm losing bodyfat.

I will post soon about the exercices I do and how much I lift.

I usually do 2-4 sets, sometimes 6, 8 sets when I include some technics like low reps, reverse grip, rest/pause, etc. And I train often with super-sets, doing Abs exercices between each sets or working another muscle group.

Had a pretty good workout today. I've changed the schedule. I used to alternate upper-body days with lower-body days, but I was stressed just to think at all the exercices I had to do each session and sometimes it took so long that I had to take a break in between, go outside breath some fresh air and eat/drink something to do a second session after. Now here's my new schedule, at least for this week:

It's good because I can finally breath, do a one hour session and plenty of sets for just 4 to 8 exercices. The only thing I don't really like is I work each muscle group only once per week, but I'll fix that by doing some push-ups, sit-ups, lunges and other bodyweight training at home when I feel I need it.

Did those exercices today to train shoulders and trapezius(for about 6 to 12 reps with 4 sets or more (usually 12, 6, 6, 12).

shrugs with dumbbells: 60 lbs in each arm

overhead press and military press with bar: 60 lbs

lateral raise decline body : 30 lbs with one arm per set (this is interesting, allows to lift heavier than standing straight)

I noticed the other days (especially for my chest workout yesterday) a side effect of my lack of sleep... I never feel tired during the day, so I was thinking, maybe I get enough sleep, eventhough I can only sleep about 2-4 hours per night due to pain in my teeths and jaw...need to go see a dentist soon. But eventhough I don't feel sleepy, it has a negative impact on my weightlifting - can't weight as heavy as I could with longer and better quality sleep. Now I manage to sleep better and I noticed today an increased level of strenght eventhough I didn't feel for training today, but after a few sets I liked it.

Didn't go to the gym last thursday and friday (nor saturday and sunday) because I was pretty sick with a cough that lasts since over a week or two and transformed into a flue now. Usually I get sick only like 3 days per year but this time I must have got 2 or 3 viruses in a row. Plus this pain in my teeths make it difficult to have enough sleep so its not helping. Many little problems right now that I'll have to fix pretty soon.

Anyways, eventhough I only went to the gym Monday and Tuesday this week (because I'm still sick), I moved snow the rest of the week a few times per day because of the 2 last snow storms.

Shoulder press 1 arm : (starting with right arm and than alternating sets) :15x30 lbs, 15x30. 8x40, 5x40+4x35. 6x40, 4x40+3x35. 10x35. My left shoulder was weaker so I was doing some regressing reps too for left shoulder.

looks like you're getting some serious work done!Good for you!Hang tough!

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After feeling sick for like 2 full weeks now I finally feel better, god it feels good to have the energy and will to do more things again, went to the gym yesterday, didn't note everything, just did lots of random exercices in supersets.

yeah I had a virus or something. And I couldn't sleep for a week because of my teeths.

I do a mini detox each morning : water, limes, grapefruits, Vega, etc... pissing litres each morning. Having more consistants meal only after 2-3 pm.

Friday I did a full body workout again, because I trained only twice last week.

I also never really thinked about how much the empty barbell weight, realized some are pretty heavy like 40 pounds or so, so now I feel better knowing that I was in fact benching 40 pounds more than what I wrote in all my previous posts, same with deadlift, etc...

Did lots of exercices again because only about 1-3 sets per exercice in supersets. Did more than what I noted here.

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